“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“and if he were ever animated enough to be in love, must have long outlived every sensation of the kind. It is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My dearest Emma," said he, "for dearest you will always be, whatever the event of this hour's conversation, my dearest, most beloved… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You should have distinguished,' replied Anne. 'You should not have suspected me now; the case so different, and my age so different.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And, and—we think very differently of the nature of women, if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A man who has been refused! How could I ever be foolish enough to expect a renewal of his love? Is there… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. So much the better. I certainly will not persuade myself… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How could you begin?’ said she. ‘I can comprehend your going on when you had once made a beginning, but what could… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You speak as if you envied him." "And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
